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[lojban-beginners] Re: A lujvo for "oblom"



lo suksa fatci djuno
lo suksa fatci jimpe
lo djica tolza'i suksa jimpe

Just my guess(es.)

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:26 pm, Yanis Batura wrote:
> There's a russian word "oblom" (modern russian slang) meaning:
>
> nu da suksa jimpe lodu'u de na lakne kei ca loza'i da denpa je djica de
>
> "The event of someone suddenly understands that something is
> impossible, while he was waiting for and desiring that something".
>
> An example of "oblom" may be when a boy and a girl are going to kiss
> (substitute for anything you like), but suddenly her parents come
> home. And there will be an "oblom" for the boy, at least.
>
> Any ideas for a lujvo?  ;)
>
> Yanis Batura

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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and 
on. 
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a 
machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going 
wrong." 
Knight turned the machine off and on. 
The machine worked.